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Looking for some (technical) "help"
2 years ago
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Good evening everybody.
I don't often use my FA journal, yet I take the opportunity that I have currently 999 watchers to ask a very specific question: do you use an Android emulator on your PC to test some applications?
I have tried to install Android Studio but the emulator is asking for too much RAM. So I am looking for something that could emulate Android 5 (or more recent but not the most recent ones) on a laptop with 8Go RAM running under Window$ 10 (which means less than 2Go of effective RAM available for the emulator). The idea is to run a specific application that allows me to control some camera via Wifi (nothing more).
Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences and advice...
I don't often use my FA journal, yet I take the opportunity that I have currently 999 watchers to ask a very specific question: do you use an Android emulator on your PC to test some applications?
I have tried to install Android Studio but the emulator is asking for too much RAM. So I am looking for something that could emulate Android 5 (or more recent but not the most recent ones) on a laptop with 8Go RAM running under Window$ 10 (which means less than 2Go of effective RAM available for the emulator). The idea is to run a specific application that allows me to control some camera via Wifi (nothing more).
Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences and advice...
You would have to go back to a 2018-2019 version under those constraints, but be aware it will run with the speed of a snail without an M.2 SSD.
Also, constrain the device between 512MB and 1GB of phone ram to make it look like a cheap phone from 2015.
You will need an appropriately ancient Java SDK to build on, with a version number starting with 1 to avoid bloat.
If plan to use emulator games like old school games. Use a toshiba hardrive data storage for the youtube project.
Then you can install it in Virtualbox which you can download here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
It's available in Linux, macOS and Windows. There are lots of video tutorials on YouTube telling you how to install Android on VirtualBox with an ISO, and it is not hard. Don't worry. It's like setting up Windows 10 for the first time, only it's Android. Hope this helps.
Or you could just use Bluestacks, assuming you need the latest version of Android (Android 15).
On tha taking too much RAM... I feel that is just part of modern development and part of how a jumbled mess the Android codebase is.
I think blustacks demands less ram, but am not entirely sure
vmware is not an emulator, but you can install android on it and run android apps directly from it, the ram is also customizable, but you'll need at least 4 gb of ram to run the virtual machine properly. Maybe 2gb is enough, but everything eats so much ram these days that I'd prefer not bother with that